Cooking-stove



LOW L LEAKEL Cook Stove.

Patented Aug. 20, 845.-

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANGIS S. LOW AND JOHN S LEAKI, OF ALBANY, NI'IVV YORK.

COOKIN'Gr-STOVIE.

Specifmation of Letters Patent No. 4:,159, dated. August 20, 1845.

T0 (ZZZ colbom 't mag. concern Be t known that we, FRANCIS S. Low andJOHN S. LEAKI, of Albany, in the county of Albany and State of New York,have invented a new and Improved CoolringStove, and we do hereby declarethat the following is a full, clear, and exact description of theconstruction and operation of the same, reference being bad to theaccompanying drawings, making part of this specification, in which-Figure l represents the body of a Stove after our construction, aportion of the top and. front plates being removed to show the interiorarrangement. Fig. 2 represents the bottom, and front oven-platedetached.

Our oven g is upon the same, or nearly the same level as the firecharnber 72x, and is placed directly behind it. The top, bottom, andback plates of. the oven are arranged ata sufficient distance from thecontignous outside plates of the Stove to form fines in the usualmanner.

In t-he fine above the oven we place a valve or damper f f, which may beeither a Sliding register as represented or .a common swing damper. Thisdamper is placed in the rear of the fine and near the smoke pipe. Whenopen, t allows the hot air from the fire Chamber to pass directly overthe top of 'the oven to the smoke pipe. But when f f by the fine 6, 6,(Fig. 1) between the back plate of the oven and the baolrplate of theStove, to the smoke pipe j.

lVe sometimes construct flues as described at both ends of the fire box,placing our fire doors in that case in front of the Stove.

What we claim as our invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent isThe construction of a diving or descending fine at the end of the firebox, communicating with the flue beneath an` oven placed immediatelybehind and upon a level with the fire box, or nearly so.

FEANCIS S. LOW. JOHN S. LEAKE.

VVitnesses:

VVM. S. ELLISON, BIENJAMIN H. THAYER.

